Solana validator network report

Solana Validator Leader Slots Report

Review how Solana leader slots relate to validator stake, epoch context, and low-latency infrastructure planning.

Data source

Solana Gossip + vote accounts

Updated Nov 05, 2026, 04:27 PM UTC

Schedule epoch

1,078

Leader slots

418,992slots

Leader validators

647validators

93.2%

Top leader

16,828slots

Helius

Network intelligence

Network state, leader timing, and validator evidence in one report.

This panel adds live slot context, leader-window evidence, validator performance rows, and production samples to the existing reports without pretending unsupported data is already resolved.

leader window loadingperformance loading

Current slot

Leader feed loading · updated waiting

Observed slot time

Target 200 ms · epoch - complete

Leader production sample

- scheduled · - skipped · skip -

Leader now

Resolving leader

Waiting for leader window

Slot

Window

Next different leader

Waiting for next leader group

Top leader-slot validators

Validators with the most scheduled leader opportunities in the joined snapshot.

Helius

16,828 slots

Figment

16,768 slots

binance staking

3.1%

12,936 slots

Bitwise Onchain Solutions

2.5%

10,612 slots

JUPi...fhkr

2.3%

9,564 slots

Ledger by Figment

2.2%

9,272 slots

Everstake

1.8%

7,704 slots

Staking Facilities 🔥

1.6%

6,896 slots

Galaxy

1.6%

6,888 slots

Forward Industries

1.5%

6,324 slots

Top countries by leader slots

Country-level share of scheduled leader slots across geolocated validators.

Germany

181 validators · 36.3%

151,920 slots

Netherlands

118 validators · 20.3%

84,900 slots

United States

108 validators · 15.3%

64,084 slots

United Kingdom

26 validators · 6.4%

26,700 slots

Japan

52 validators · 5.6%

23,284 slots

Lithuania

17 validators · 4.7%

19,808 slots

Singapore

42 validators · 4%

16,840 slots

Sweden

12 validators · 2.2%

9,016 slots

Ireland

6 validators · 1.1%

4,604 slots

Hong Kong SAR China

17 validators · 0.8%

3,320 slots

Canada

12 validators · 0.7%

2,912 slots

France

11 validators · 0.7%

2,880 slots

South Korea

1 validators · 0.5%

2,068 slots

Brazil

13 validators · 0.4%

1,584 slots

Poland

7 validators · 0.3%

1,164 slots

Top cities by leader slots

City-level clusters of scheduled block production across geolocated validators.

Frankfurt am Main

106 validators · 26.9%

112,572 slots

Amsterdam

86 validators · 15.9%

66,712 slots

London

20 validators · 5.9%

24,676 slots

Tokyo

50 validators · 5.5%

22,952 slots

Šiauliai

17 validators · 4.7%

19,808 slots

Singapore

42 validators · 4%

16,840 slots

Offenbach

32 validators · 3.9%

16,232 slots

Ashburn

5 validators · 3.6%

15,164 slots

Eschborn

35 validators · 2.6%

10,836 slots

New York City

16 validators · 2.6%

10,744 slots

Lelystad

8 validators · 2.6%

10,724 slots

Stockholm

12 validators · 2.2%

9,016 slots

Munich

4 validators · 2%

8,244 slots

Los Angeles

11 validators · 1.7%

7,032 slots

Newark

9 validators · 1.7%

6,948 slots

Key signal

Epoch context

Leader slots are evaluated inside the current epoch, so slot counts should be read together with epoch progress.

Key signal

Validator opportunity

Leader-slot counts show how many block-production opportunities a validator is scheduled for, not whether every opportunity performs equally.

Key signal

Network placement

Applications that react to Solana events can use leader context to reason about geography and network path quality.

What this report answers

This page explains why leader slots matter for Solana validators, RPC operators, low-latency applications, and trading systems. Use it to connect scheduled block-production opportunities with the live validator table.

How to read the data

The live rankings join validator directory data, vote accounts, Gossip metadata, and current leader-schedule counts. Because this is a joined current snapshot, leader-slot totals can differ slightly from the protocol epoch total when scheduled identities are no longer present in the current validator set.

How operators use it

Validator operators use leader-slot context to plan monitoring and incident response. Application teams use it to understand why distance to Solana leaders changes over time and why one fixed city is not enough for every slot.